Taylor Swift may be about to cap off one heck of a comeback with her first ever Oscar nomination

By Deputy Chief EditorDecember 19, 2017

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Taylor Swift may be about to cap off one heck of a comeback with a first ever Oscar nod — Taylor Swift may be about to cap off one heck of a comeback with a first ever Oscar nomination (Picture: Getty)

Taylor Swift may be about to cap off one heck of a comeback with a first ever nomination for an Academy Award.

The singer has found herself on the long list for the Best Original Song category for her track I Don’t Wanna Live Forever, which was created especially for the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack.

The song was performed by Taylor and pal Zayn Malik, but if the song were to end up on the short list only Taylor, along with co-writers Sam Dew and Jack Antonoff would be given awards, as the award is only presented to the songwriters who have composed the track, written specifically for a film.

The song was only recently nominated for a Grammy award under the Best Song Written for Visual Media category.

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Elsewhere on the long list are two new songs from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast – Evermore, and How Does A Moment Last Forever – and Sufjan Stevens’ Visions Of Gideon, from the critically acclaimed Call Me By Your Name.

Hip hop group The Roots are also on the list for their powerful track It Ain’t Fair, about race relations from the film Detroit.

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However it is the animated films who are most hotly favoured this year, especially Remember Me from Coco, a song written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the pair behind Let It Go, which also won Best Original Song earlier in the decade.

Taylor Swift may be about to cap off one heck of a comeback with a first ever Oscar nod

Mariah Carey may also get her first Oscar nomination thanks to the title track from The Star, as well as former Disney tween Nick Jonas, who composed Home for the film Ferdinand.

Best Original Song long list

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title:

“U.N.I (You And I)” from “And the Winner Isn’t”
“Love And Lies” from “Band Aid”
“If I Dare” from “Battle of the Sexes”
“Evermore” from “Beauty and the Beast”
“How Does A Moment Last Forever” from “Beauty and the Beast”
“Now Or Never” from “Bloodline: Now or Never”
“She” from “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story”
“Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go” from “The Book of Henry”
“Buddy’s Business” from “Brawl in Cell Block 99”
“The Crown Sleeps” from “The Breadwinner”
“World Gone Mad” from “Bright”
“Mystery Of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name”
“Visions Of Gideon” from “Call Me by Your Name”
“Captain Underpants Theme Song” from “Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie”
“Ride” from “Cars 3”
“Run That Race” from “Cars 3”
“Tell Me How Long” from “Chasing Coral”
“Broken Wings” from “City of Ghosts”
“Remember Me” from “Coco”
“Prayers For This World” from “Cries from Syria”
“There’s Something Special” from “Despicable Me 3”
“It Ain’t Fair” from “Detroit”
“A Little Change In The Weather” from “Downsizing”
“Stars In My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)” from “Drawing Home”
“All In My Head” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Dying For Ya” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Green” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Can’t Hold Out On Love” from “Father Figures”
“Home” from “Ferdinand”
“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from “Fifty Shades Darker”
“You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way” from “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”
“This Is How You Walk On” from “Gifted”
“Summer Storm” from “The Glass Castle”
“The Pure And The Damned” from “Good Time”
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman”
“The Hero” from “The Hero”
“How Shall A Sparrow Fly” from “Hostiles”
“Just Getting Started” from “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast”
“Truth To Power” from “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”
“Next Stop, The Stars” from “Kepler’s Dream”
“The Devil & The Huntsman” from “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”
“Have You Ever Wondered” from “Lake of Fire”
“I’ll Be Gone” from “Lake of Fire”
“We’ll Party All Night” from “Lake of Fire”
“Friends Are Family” from “The Lego Batman Movie”
“Found My Place” from “The Lego Ninjago Movie”
“Stand Up For Something” from “Marshall”
“Rain” from “Mary and the Witch’s Flower”
“Myron/Byron” from “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”
“Longing For Summer” from “Moomins and the Winter Wonderland”
“Mighty River” from “Mudbound”
“Never Forget” from “Murder on the Orient Express”
“Hold The Light” from “Only the Brave”
“PBNJ” from “Patti Cake$”
“Tuff Love (Finale)” from “Patti Cake$”
“Lost Souls” from “The Pirates of Somalia”
“How A Heart Unbreaks” from “Pitch Perfect 3”
“The Promise” from “The Promise”
“Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe” from “Pulimurugan”
“Maanathe Maarikurumbe” from “Pulimurugan”
“Stubborn Angel” from “Same Kind of Different as Me”
“Dancing Through The Wreckage” from “Served Like a Girl”
“Keep Your Eyes On Me” from “The Shack”
“On The Music Goes” from “Slipaway”
“The Star” from “The Star”
“Jump” from “Step”
“Tickling Giants” from “Tickling Giants”
“Fly Away” from “Trafficked”
“Speak To Me” from “Voice from the Stone”
“Walk On Faith” from “Year by the Sea”